…an adaptation of the Southern blot procedure used to detect specific sequences of RNA by hybridization with complementary DNA…
…a province of western South Africa, formerly part of Cape Province; capital, Kimberley…
…a region in eastern Virginia between the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers, a tidewater peninsula…
…a region in north-central Pennsylvania, comprising five rural counties; the southern portion of the Twin Tiers…
…a former name for the coastal region of eastern India between the Krishna River and Orissa, now in Andhra Pradesh…
…a province of the United Kingdom occupying the NE part of Ireland; population 1,775,000 (est. 2008); capital, Belfast…
…a self-governing territory in the western Pacific, comprising the Mariana Islands with the exception of the southernmost, Guam; population 51,500 (est. 2009); languages, English (official), Austronesian languages; capital, Chalan Kanoa (on Saipan). The Northern Marianas are constituted as a self-governing commonwealth in union with the United States…
…former name (until 2002) for the province of Limpopo in South Africa.…
…an Asian food fish of the carp family that is also a voracious predator. It is able to survive adverse conditions and has been inadvertently released into the wild in the US…
…a state of north central Australia; population 219,818 (2008); capital, Darwin. The territory was annexed by the state of South Australia in 1863, and administered by the Commonwealth of Australia from 1911. It became a self-governing territory in 1978…
…a conflict 1700–21 in which Russia, Denmark, Poland, and Saxony opposed Sweden. The war resulted in Sweden losing her imperial possessions in central Europe, and Russia under Peter the Great becoming a major power in the Baltic…
…a diving waterbird with a black streamlined head, breeding in northern North America, Greenland, and Iceland…
…a migratory Old World falcon with long, narrow wings, catching dragonflies and birds on the wing…
…a long-bodied predatory freshwater fish with a pointed snout and large teeth, of both Eurasia and North America…
…a form of rugby played in teams of thirteen, originally by a group of northern English clubs which separated from rugby union in 1895. Besides having somewhat different rules, the game differed from rugby union in always allowing professionalism…
…a New World quail with mottled reddish-brown plumage, and typically a pale throat and eyestripe…
…a New World songbird of the bunting family, having a stout bill and typically a conspicuous crest. The male is partly or mostly red in colour…
…a small African warbler with a very short tail, and grey or green upper parts with rufous or white underparts…
…a gull-sized grey and white seabird of the petrel family, with a stocky body and tubular nostrils…
…a large seabird with mainly white plumage, which catches fish by plunging into the water…
…a widespread harrier of open country, the male of which is mainly pale grey and the female brown…
…any of a number of large sporting fish, many of which are edible:…
…a large plover, typically having a black-and-white head and underparts and a loud call…
…a member of either of two culturally similar but geographically separate and linguistically distinct American Indian peoples (the Southern Paiute and the Northern Paiute) of the western US…
…two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. The Northern Sporades, which lie close to the east coast of mainland Greece, include the islands of Euboea, Skiros, Skiathos, and Skopelos. The Southern Sporades, situated off the west coast of Turkey, include Rhodes and the other islands of the Dodecanese…
…a large predatory freshwater fish of the carp family, with a slender body and large mouth, found in western North America…
…a mainly Eurasian and African songbird related to the chats, with black and buff or black and white plumage and a white rump…
…an Old World bird of the woodpecker family, with brown camouflaged plumage and a habit of twisting and writhing the neck when disturbed…
…a long-tailed thrush-like songbird with greyish plumage, found mainly in tropical America and noted for its mimicry of the calls and songs of other birds…
…a long-bodied predatory freshwater fish with a pointed snout and large teeth, of both Eurasia and North America…
…a dynasty that ruled in China ad 960–1279…
…a gregarious eared seal that frequents the coasts of the Pacific and southern oceans, the male of which is substantially larger than the female. The thick fur on the underside is used commercially as sealskin…
…a natural electrical phenomenon characterized by the appearance of streamers of reddish or greenish light in the sky, especially near the northern or southern magnetic pole. The effect is caused by the interaction of charged particles from the sun with atoms in the upper atmosphere. In northern and southern regions it is respectively called aurora borealis or Northern Lights and aurora australis or Southern Lights…
…a small African warbler with a very short tail, and grey or green upper parts with rufous or white underparts…
…a gull-sized grey and white seabird of the petrel family, with a stocky body and tubular nostrils…
…a large seabird with mainly white plumage, which catches fish by plunging into the water…
…a large short-winged hawk, resembling a large sparrowhawk…
…a widespread harrier of open country, the male of which is mainly pale grey and the female brown…
…a migratory Old World falcon with long, narrow wings, catching dragonflies and birds on the wing…
…a large plover, typically having a black-and-white head and underparts and a loud call…
